Book References• Dr Robert Young, author of "The pH Miracle" has been saying this for years - "Obesity is an acid problem, the fat is saving our lives.”• In 1933 a New York doctor named William Howard Hay published a ground-breaking book, A New HealthEra in which he maintains that all disease is caused by auto-toxication (or "self-poisoning") due to acid accumulation in the body: Now we depart from health in just the proportion to which we have allowed ouralkalies to be dissipated by introduction of acid-forming food in too great amount... It may seem strange tosay that all disease is the same thing, no matter what its myriad modes of expression, but it is verily so.—William Howard Hay, M.D.• More recently, in his book Alkalize or Die, Dr. Theodore A. Baroody says essentially the same thing: The countless names of illnesses do not really matter. What does matter is that they all come from the same root cause...too much tissue acid waste in the body!—Theodore A. Baroody, N.D., D.C., Ph.D.• The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has concluded that alkalising diets improve bone density and serum growth hormone concentrations, the acidosis resulting from acidic diets contributes to bone and muscle loss.• In a book "Reverse Aging" Sang Whang proposes this theory of aging: We age because we gradually accumulate organic acid wastes. These wastes are often surrounded by cholesterol. Cellulite is a gel-like substance made of fat in which are trapped acid wastes in pockets below the skin.